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PREGNANCY IN THE OVERWEIGHT NIGERIAN
Author(s) -
Efiong E. I.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1975.tb00596.x
Subject(s) - overweight , pregnancy , medicine , obstetrics , incidence (geometry) , eclampsia , obesity , pediatrics , genetics , physics , optics , biology
Summary One hundred pregnant patients weighing 80 kg or over at the 14th week of pregnancy were studied during their antenatal period and delivery. The incidence of pre‐eclampsia, hypertension, pyelitis of pregnancy and operative delivery was higher in overweight patients than in an equivalent number of patients of average weight also studied. The age‐related difference in antenatal weight gain in obese patients was confirmed. Two maternal deaths occurred among the overweight patients.